Mussolini’s brain and blood for sale on eBay, granddaughter claims

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Alessandra Mussolini, the far-right Italian politician and granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, the Fascist dictator, has claimed that his blood and brains are being offered for sale on the internet.

She said she had complained to police that remains taken from Mussolini’s body during a post mortem examination in April 1945 and preserved at a hospital in Milan had been offered on eBay for €15,000 (£13,500).

Mussolini was captured and shot by partisans at the end of the Second World War and his body was hung upside down in a Milan piazza together with that of Clara Petacci, his mistress. He